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  From: Alan Kennington <akenning@topology.org>
  To  : LinuxSA <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 13:36:06 +0930

Re: RAID Array Problems

On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 01:18:03PM +0930, Glen Turner wrote:
> 
[....]
> 
> BTW, your power fail strategy is wrong.  As I've pointed
> out many times on this list, a UPS is to give your machines
> time to power down properly and then to ride out the
> on-again off-again nature of power restoration.  That
> means that a UPS without a wire to your serial port to
> enable an automated controlled shutdown is useless.


But in any case, one should always have a laptop handy,
and a serial cable, and each server should have a serial
port that can accept a terminal.
Or one could use the laptop to just log in over the LAN.
The serial port is better for real disasters though.
And a torch on hand is a good idea too.

Cheers,
Alan Kennington.

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